TLASILA Blog: A forum for all things related (and of interest) to the experimental collective To Live and Shave in L.A. Founded by Tom Smith in May 1990, TLASILA is antithesis, energized at the juncture of aesthetic revulsion. Genre is obsolete.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Why, why, why do I always attempt more than I'm capable of accomplishing in a twenty-four day? One of these millennia I'm going to schedule a block of sleep into the cycle...

Re KSV: check back tomorrow for expanded new release info. I had a Three Resurrected Drunkards rehearsal earlier, and then a Mad Men date with the CP. During the day, I worked, then completed the final mix of the fourth Academia Riding Rust album, Improvident Upskirt. Just no time left today to sort out the relevant details - I'm exhausted.

OK, back with the extended palaver. The douche upstairs is running his wobbly waschmaschine a bit too goddamned late for my liking, but, to Hell with it. The temblors snaking down from the fifth floor also qualify as free entertainment. Mustn't be ungrateful...

KSV 107 Eric Arn, Wouter Jaspers & Stefan Kushima - Templates
Leopoldstadt divides its time between metamorphosing hypnosis and the sweatered slamming of doors; a cloak that defines hours on end as a cabin replica...

Composed and performed live by Eric Arn, Wouter Jaspers and Stefan Kushima at the Oberdeck, Hannover, September 11, 2010.

Note: Eric Arn is re-working Templates for a special, second edition version! Until he's completed his post-production ablutions, the album will not be available. Those who ordered (and were shipped) the first edition prior to Arn's retreating to his Vienna atelier will receive copies of the second edition at no cost. For everyone else, the second version will now supplant the first. OK? We'll send up a flare when the album is ready for re-release.

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KSV 108 Academia Riding Rust - Improvident Upskirt

Two oranges on a shelf consisting of nothing more than miniature houses, a doghouse with two entrances. Sculptures range from bloated and French graphic to shouting and slamming of white sugar and black paper...

Using Kevin's recent Obstacles double set as its thematic starting point, Mud posits the recent, still-unfolding Hungarian ecological catastrophe as a slowly gurgling metaphor for all the irrevocably fucked-up shit going on around us. (Yes, it's political.) Re-edited and remixed from KD's original Obstacles masters by Tom, who also added multiple layers of splintered vocals to re-frame the narrative.

Portraits of acclaim from the world's largest landfill, mixing Iranian and American imagery with imperceptible changes in hue. Taking cues from interiors either real or imagined, calculated subtlety gives way, stretching one minute into ten hours, tidying up disorder...

01 Metalized (66:11)

Composed, recorded, mixed, and produced August-September by Katja Fregatte at the Mathematics and Informatics Laboratory of the University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

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Began making music at nine - shortwave radio and turntable manipulation. (Just wicked child's play, but ideas quickly coalesced.) Joined an African-American funk ensemble at 13. Within minutes of his debut, received an ear-nuzzle and a beer. Hooked. Enrolled in an electronic music class at university in 1974; joined the staff of its radio station the same year. Initial electro-acoustic compositions recorded (often in collaboration with Don Fleming) in 1975. During off-hours at the station, emboldened both by the aesthetic promise of punk and Lee Perry's titanic Super Ape, subverted production facilities to create fractured dub versions of extant, "underdone" releases. Moved to NYC in 1977; kept eyes peeled. Migrated next to Athens, Georgia; formed Boat Of (1979-83). Moved to DC, resurfaced as Peach of Immortality (1983-91). Amidst turmoil, signed on with Pussy Galore (8/85 to 2/86). Initial TLASILA demos were recorded by TS in May 1990. Smith moved to Miami in 1991 and perfected the TLASILA template. Rat Bastard and Ben Wolcott were aboard by 93-94. Moved to Germany in 2008. MORE!!